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- ...nion on Joseph Smith's character cannot be trusted, because Brigham was an apostle and utterly committed to Mormonism." ...to appear more Christian by emphasizing the doctrines which speak of basic Christian principles because they think this will appeal to broader society?"44 KB (7,051 words) - 17:45, 13 April 2024
- |H=The early Christian Church and the Great Apostasy |L4=The office of Apostle within the ancient Church of Jesus Christ587 bytes (86 words) - 14:00, 13 April 2024
- ...Lord concerning them, and what awaits the faithful follower of Joseph, the Apostle and Prophet of God, When in the stead thereof, they are told, after having ...and absurd. We believe, it is inconsistent, and not in accordance with the christian religion. We do not believe that God ever raised up a Prophet to christiani72 KB (12,886 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- Question: Why do Mormons follow the practice of most Christians by resting and worshiping on Sunday?...ving the day of rest and worship on Sunday is consistent with the earliest Christian practice of which we have record=== ...ash;like most of the Christian world—is consistent with the earliest Christian practice of which we have record.17 KB (2,918 words) - 15:38, 13 April 2024
- ...numerate [enumerate] a host of our members who regularly attend those anti-christian meetings-but I will just mention with your permission the names of a few wh God, according to the apostle's statement, had fixed it by an irrevocable decree and that before the worl67 KB (11,841 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...gic, evil or ancient paganism. Why are these symbols visible on supposedly Christian buildings, of all places? Many ex-Mormons have claimed that the LDS secretl ...of Revelation. There it is said of a vision that was shown to the ancient apostle John, "And there appeared a great sign in heaven, in the likeness of things7 KB (1,150 words) - 15:20, 13 April 2024
- ...to any other mortal, including Joseph Smith. Is Mr. Powell unsure of what Christian theology is concerning Christ when he states that Jesus is merely one "of t ..._to_be_Christian_only_recently.3F|Have the LDS only recently claimed to be Christian?]]8 KB (1,361 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- *[[Born again translation|Being "born again": early Christian perspectives]] ...ake it appear as if the Latter-day Saints do not believe these fundamental Christian concepts.44 KB (7,529 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...ing:0.2em 0.4em;">Claim: "Furthermore the Bible repeatedly commands that a Christian leader is to be the husband of only one wife. (On screen: {{b|1|Timothy|3|2 Multiple early Christian writers also understood there to be no absolute prohibition against plural49 KB (8,019 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...produced out of love for our Lord Jesus Christ and love for our Mormon and Christian friends. We pray that it will touch the hearts of all who watch through the ...The viewer need only look to their abuse of scripture as we reinstate the apostle Paul's words (in brackets) that they removed in their video presentation.26 KB (4,387 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- It is very strange to hear a Bible-believing Christian claim that a burning in the bosom is of no importance, since it is taught i When the apostles were confronted with the issue of circumcision for Christian converts, they actually violated Jewish scriptural commands regarding circu31 KB (5,234 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...es more about God than philosophical speculation, and insists that he is a Christian, but the video does not quote this material: :''Am I Christian? Of course I am. I believe in Christ. I talk of Christ. I pray through Chri27 KB (4,448 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...holarly work of Robert Matthews on the manuscripts in the early 1970s, and apostle Bruce R. McConkie's embrace of the JST. ...KJV serves as a connection between the LDS Church and the remainder of the Christian world.5 KB (793 words) - 22:10, 29 April 2024
- ...that this particular list of questions was put together by an Evangelical Christian ministry. The answers provided here by FairMormon are directed to Christian ...he true church on earth, does that mean that the 3 living Nephites and the Apostle John went into apostasy also?"13 KB (2,209 words) - 14:10, 13 April 2024
- ...mons generally share one of two ideologies: (a) Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christian groups or (b) secular/agnostic/atheist, usually former members. Authors sh ...um of the Twelve Apostles. In the RLDS Church it may be used as a title, ''Apostle John Smith''. Use the term Elder in the LDS Church, ''Elder John Smith, a m27 KB (4,268 words) - 15:00, 13 April 2024
- ...rnoldy, "Ahead of 'September Dawn,' Mormon Church revisits dark period," ''Christian Science Monitor'' (24 August 2007). {{link|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/20 ...her people's faith. There is, unfortunately, a large tradition among some Christian ministers of mocking Mormon beliefs. Some of these ministers literally trav32 KB (4,917 words) - 15:20, 13 April 2024
- ...t rest as relates to the antiquity of the gospel proclamation is, that the apostle Paul says that the gospel which he proclaimed, or what was to the same effe ...gels should appear in this age of the world, as well as in the days of the apostle and prophets? there is certainly as much need of their administration now,69 KB (12,223 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...ng from the Author of our exisence [existence], and is here defined by the apostle, as the power of God manifested in the salvation of the believer. Here was ...the true points of Christ's doctrine. In view of what is above stated the apostle said, 2nd Timothy, 4:3, 4 . for the time will come, when they will not endu73 KB (12,947 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...the Church of Jesus Christ believe in more than one divine personage. Any Christian who does not embrace the late, non-biblical Trinitarian creeds will underst ...ter-day Saint supposition. Origin (A.D. 185–''ca.''254), head of the Christian Church in Alexandria, wrote:22 KB (3,787 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...fication of previously accepted ideas. <ref>Maurice Wiles, ''The Making of Christian Doctrine'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), 4, 144.</ref> ...s speak of an unqualified Trinitarianism, one has moved from the period of Christian origins to, say, the last quadrant of the 4th century. <ref>RL Richard, "Tr18 KB (2,822 words) - 14:12, 13 April 2024
- :Mormons [and other groups]....insist that the orthodox Christian doctrine of the Trinity is unbiblical and is a hangover from the polytheism ...ought to use religion for their own purposes—were left to articulate Christian doctrine as best they could. Many turned to the best, most sophisticated t17 KB (2,754 words) - 14:12, 13 April 2024
- ...he ''same'' oneness into which He invites the apostles and all believers. Christian doctrine does not teach that all believers will be absorbed into God as par An apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ, Elder Jefffrey R. Holland, recently spoke on8 KB (1,296 words) - 14:12, 13 April 2024
- |L11=Response to claim: 519n58 (PB) - The author states: In 1998, Apostle David B. Haight "reinvoked the astrological principle that people should 'd {{:Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian?}}16 KB (2,387 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- {{disinformation|These hymns are a rather mild Christian apocalyptic, and do not "glorify vengeance" in any way. * Note that this claim is from the excommunication hearing of former apostle Matthias Cowley.16 KB (2,483 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- |>=[[../Chapter 17|Claims made in "Chapter 17: Is Mormonism Christian?"]] *A quote from Apostle Mark E. Petersen is provided to support this assertion.28 KB (4,263 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...eing the post-mortal heavens as having multiple degrees was a common early Christian belief, lost over time. |L4=Biblical and early Christian use of sun, moon, and stars as types of the degrees of glory45 KB (7,411 words) - 15:12, 28 April 2024
- ...or in all the eternities, that is, that were, or that ever will be. As the Apostle Paul has expressed it, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being." ..." and then compares Latter-day Saints with other groups who claimed to be "Christian:"24 KB (3,862 words) - 14:11, 13 April 2024
- Mormonism "officially still teaches that all Christian churches are corrupt," and that "Satan sits in the place of God in Christia ...rue religion came the rejection of true authority as well....With the last Apostle gone from the church, the night of apostasy was upon it; and so it would re6 KB (951 words) - 21:53, 9 May 2024
- ...al solutions to racial division.<ref name="emerson">Richard O. Emerson and Christian Smith, ''Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in ...n. And to be fair, Mormonism is not alone in this predicament. A number of Christian denominations (e.g. the Southern Baptists) have had to work very hard at ra16 KB (2,472 words) - 16:54, 30 April 2024
- ...erica to oppose the ERA. Religious groups sponsored by Catholic and other Christian and Jewish faiths also opposed it. Secular organizations, most notably Phy ...speaking of women’s rights. In 1942, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostle, John A. Widtsoe said:16 KB (2,637 words) - 22:04, 9 May 2024
- ===1900 Inter-denominational Council of Women for Christian and Patriotic Service=== * 38: "Contrary to Apostle Widtsoe's statement, anti-Mormon writers have not been afraid to discuss th31 KB (4,585 words) - 12:04, 27 April 2024
- ...mmon soldiers, the commodore, and sailor before the mast, the fair-skinned Christian, and the dark-skinned savage, {{page break|2|top}} all, in their respective ...nd attribute of the holy Gospel, we may say of that people, as the ancient Apostle said to his brethren, "Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ i19 KB (3,575 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...../35|Effects and Privileges of the Gospel—The Latter-day Saints and the Christian World]] ...aracter of such a man, it is the nature of his calling and office to be an Apostle, and issue forth the light and truth of God, from this time henceforth and7 KB (1,321 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...ons weigh anything, but come right to the fact of the matter. If Peter the Apostle were here to-day, and a person were to relate to him a vision wherein an an .... Cornelius had the ministering of angels before he became a member of the Christian Church, or understood there was a crucified and risen Redeemer. He prayed t42 KB (7,756 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...ay be added to this, more power, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. The Apostle does not say, grow in grace, and in the knowledge of the truth, as Jesus di ...ould not have known what to do with such a vast amount of information. The Apostle says, "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if33 KB (6,326 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...tter-day Saints. Jesus says, if you are not one, you are not mine. Let the Christian world who profess to believe in Jesus Christ, and in his Father, and in thi Jesus says, "Except ye are one, ye are not mine." And yet the Christian world take a course to justify themselves in division, in strife, in animos24 KB (4,759 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...man could be upon the earth; as righteous, so far as they knew how, as any Apostle or Prophet that ever lived, I will go and be baptized, confirmed, washed, a ...human being would not be as great as many sins committed by the so-called Christian nations.31 KB (5,949 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- In the last General Epistle of Franklin Pierce, Chief Apostle of the United States of America, written to his brethren of the Senate and "There can be no fellowship between Mormon and Christian. They cannot exist under the same social system. They cannot be partners in31 KB (5,668 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...ing while I read to you that scripture recorded in the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians, 1st. chap. All who understand the language of this passage, will agree that the Apostle alluded particularly to the Gospel that he had preached to the Galatians an28 KB (5,269 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- Now, my friends, you may go to work with all your Christian benevolent societies, to gather the Jews from the nations; you may combine ...are the ones to whom the standard should be first raised. This is what the Apostle Paul says in the 11th chapter of Romans, "For as ye (Gentiles) in times pas50 KB (9,359 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- |H=ARGUMENTS OF MODERN CHRISTIAN SECTS AGAINST THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS |T=Journal of Discourses 2: ARGUMENTS OF MODERN CHRISTIAN SECTS AGAINST THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS39 KB (7,221 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../49|Arguments of Modern Christian Sects Against the Latter-day Saints]] ...hink and believe that all men, who shall believe on the Savior through the Apostle's words, will become the same identical person; this is not the idea convey46 KB (8,750 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...the side of Mahomet, for on this point he is on the side of truth, and the Christian world on the side of idolatry and heathenism. ...h all my education in favor of Christian nations and Christian powers, and Christian institutions, so called, with all my prejudices of early youth, and habits17 KB (3,008 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...nd all those good gifts that are spoken of in the Scriptures of truth. The Apostle says, if all these good gifts abound in you, "ye shall neither be barren no ...can understand the principles of, or enter the kingdom of heaven, and the Christian world are not willing to humble themselves, and become as little children;17 KB (3,231 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...ook into some portions of it, as it comes to me in the 19th century of the Christian era. ...ou will find the mother, and grandmother, and great-grandmother of all the Christian denominations upon the face of the earth—though these are but a scanty pr60 KB (11,377 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...heathen nations alone—as we denominate them in contradistinction to the, christian world—that are groveling in darkness, that are worshiping they know not w ...lects its light there. Does it wear away? No, it is there continually. The Apostle chose that as a figure, that was as near something immutable and without ch46 KB (8,886 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...place everything where it belongs. That is the only way to be a scientific Christian; there is no other method or process which will actually school a person so ...d part of the 15th verses of the 5th chapter of the general epistle of the Apostle James, "If any are sick, &c." But why not say to the sick, be made well; ju27 KB (5,207 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...n the earth, or that had lived upon it, neither a reformer nor a professed Christian, from the time the Priesthood was taken from the earth until Joseph Smith c ...Write it down, and write it back to your friends in the east, that I am an Apostle of Joseph Smith. He was a man of God and had the revelations of Jesus Chris39 KB (7,617 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...bsence of the testimony of his friends, I do not know but that the present Christian world would all be Jews, so far as their belief that Jesus Christ was an im ...ghty. He is still an Apostle, still a Prophet, and is doing the work of an Apostle and Prophet; he has gone one step beyond us and gained a victory that you a48 KB (9,359 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...nd set it in order, and to ordain proper officers to execute the law. This Apostle of {{page break|17|top}} Jesus Christ told the people that if they would ob Some, in the so called Christian world, contend that the spirit is the word, and that word, they argue, will18 KB (3,311 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...of [[Saint Peter|Peter]], [[James, son of Zebedee|James]], and [[John the Apostle|John]] who he said gave Smith and Cowdery an apostolic authority. ...] area and converted [[Sidney Rigdon]] and over a hundred members of his [[Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)|Disciples of Christ]] congregation,75 KB (11,044 words) - 20:10, 11 May 2024
- Prior to conversion, the congregation had also been practicing a form of [[Christian communism]], and Smith adopted a communal system within his own church, cal ...(The five equal councils were "the [[First Presidency|presidency]], the [[Apostle (Latter Day Saints)|apostles]], the [[Seventy (Latter Day Saints)|seventies51 KB (7,331 words) - 20:13, 11 May 2024
- ...l the knowledge they possess, and that is required by the parents. But the Christian nations with whom we have been associated, boast of their intelligence, sup ...fathers who shall endure, and whose posterity shall never end; though the Apostle turned the point very quick, because the people were not prepared to receiv45 KB (8,630 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...as of a great many characters that they call God. With the majority of the Christian world there are three Gods in one. With them that one God is three persons, ...ty, He attributes that to the delusion and ignorance which His professedly Christian people have spread so generally in the minds of the people, and holds them24 KB (4,674 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...o me, surely within me and all around me I could see very plainly what the Apostle meant in the words, "When the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." ...sted to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness.23 KB (4,264 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...is letter bore testimony of the wickedness and the fallen condition of the Christian world. My father read the letter, and I well remember the remark he made ab ...ntance and baptism for the remission of sins, precisely as preached by the Apostle Peter and by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. These doctrines I was pleas38 KB (7,244 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...heart were ever touched with the fire of truth, into any kind of orthodox Christian, would require as much faith and skill as it ever did to turn water into wi24 KB (4,534 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- It was a very correct figure that the Apostle made use of formerly, when he spoke of men being as ignorant as brute beast ...of the forest; we had to seek that mercy from the hands of the savage that Christian civilization denied us.47 KB (8,783 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...t they were not originally used in the Catholic churches nor in any of the Christian churches previous to their becoming mixed with Romanism. ...ome saint or personage, imaginary or real; thus completely co-mingling the Christian religion with idolatry. Then men started up to assign reasons for this, and31 KB (5,845 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...ng can harm them. But I can tell you what the Devil is doing. It is as the Apostle said—"We are not altogether ignorant of the devices of Satan." ...e no need to open it, and the devils won't get in at your ears. James, the Apostle, said that the tongue was an unruly member, and {{page break|374|top}} that30 KB (5,883 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- Since William Smith apostatized and was not true to his calling as an apostle, any promise made to him is arguably forfeit. However, one can be "preserve Unlike many Christian theologies, the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints4 KB (716 words) - 15:29, 13 April 2024
- ...is not any man inspired to rise up and teach them the way to be saved—no Apostle to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, had there been an Apostle there to have said, "Go and repent, be baptised for the remission of your s23 KB (4,467 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...lowest caste are practised among those nations that bear the fair title of Christian nations, and they have sunk the deepest of all others in degradation, wicke We are free, for Christ has made us free; and the Apostle says, "Whom the Son makes free is free indeed," If you are free by the bloo15 KB (2,872 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- It was said in the days of the Apostle Paul, "Say not in your heart, Who shall descend into the deep to bring Chri ...all ranks of society in the world, and they will receive you, if you are a Christian; but you must mind one thing—you must not name "Mormonism"—you must not12 KB (2,278 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...comes in contact with all the prejudices and prepossessed feelings of the Christian world. In the practical part of our religion we do not differ from them in ...les he put forth actually circumscribed the religious knowledge of all the Christian world. Almost every principle and every idea taught in the Gospel, that the21 KB (3,859 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...h this volume; then search all those books which have been rejected by the Christian nations as not canonical, and any other writings of Prophets and Apostles, ...s the Lord; to your posterity there shall be no end. You remember what the Apostle says concerning this matter. It is this:—"His seed shall be like the sand55 KB (10,368 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...ever spoken against it by any inspired writer? Has any Patriarch, Prophet, Apostle, angel, or even the Son of God himself, ever condemned polygamy? We may giv ...on the earth. It was named by the Apostles as one that was binding on the Christian as well as on the Jew. "Thou shalt not kill." Every one who reads this sacr51 KB (9,551 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...ornelius tell Peter that he had received the Holy Ghost, and was as good a Christian as he? But, no; he must send to Joppa for one Simon Peter, who would tell h ...conversed with him, and told him what to do. Did he tell him that he was a Christian, that his sins were forgiven, and that there was nothing more to be done? H27 KB (4,981 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...the Old Testament at the present day date from the twelfth century of the Christian era. You will find proof of this in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the 8th e ...nd Greek Bibles were formed. We are informed by St. Chrysostom, an ancient Christian writer who lived soon after the days of Christ, that "many of the prophetic59 KB (10,547 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...authority: and in order that it might be restored, it was needful that an Apostle, holding the {{page break|79|top}} office, and authority, and the keys, sho ...n ignorance of the authority and power of the Gospel—in ignorance of the Christian religion. They, having only a history of it, had no one authorized to admin60 KB (11,245 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...avel through the whole of the Eastern continent and not find a Prophet, or Apostle, or Revelator, or any one who had heard the voice of God or received any co .... It became entirely extinct from the earth about four centuries after the Christian era, and there was nothing left on the face of the wide earth but the wisdo61 KB (10,991 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...u must have faith in such a principle as birth of water. "Faith," says the apostle, "comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." That is, in ancient da ...i by the voice of the trump of God—that law that was continued under the Christian dispensation—namely, the ten commandments. If you have coveted your neigh55 KB (10,426 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...time in which the sun began to rise a little above the horizon; and of the Christian dispensation, as it now exists in the world, as being the fulness of light ...ousness of God was always revealed through the Gospel as specified by this Apostle. Whenever and wherever the the Gospel of Jesus Christ existed, there the po37 KB (7,012 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...than a wicked person can in leading hosts astray. Let a Prophet of God, an Apostle, or any servant of the Lord Jesus have the privilege of bringing the very s ...version!'" This proves the false ideas and vain notions entertained by the Christian world. They have no good sense pertaining to God and godliness.25 KB (4,630 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...s a long time, for they are all texts. We have not time to show wherein an Apostle or Prophet meant thus and so, but we pour out the words of life to the peop ...ct conception of revelation and its Spirit. What do the present professing Christian world know about the words of the Lord that came to Jeremiah, Isaiah, and o12 KB (2,182 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...t is. Where does this idolatrous worship prevail so much as it does in the Christian world? Among the nations it seems to be the object of both merchants and mi ...as brother Pratt, who addressed you this morning, although he has been an Apostle for many years, and was one before I was baptized. This causes me to rejoic24 KB (4,698 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...nk a great deal about the life that is to come, and the life-labour of the Christian part of the world is to prepare for that. The time we now occupy is in eter ...ss infant upon its {{page break|171|top}} mother's breast we see a man, an Apostle, a Saint,—yea generations of men with kingdoms, thrones, and dominions. T25 KB (4,662 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...first principles of the Gospel, contrasting them with the religion of the Christian world, showing the authority by which they administered in different ages t ...d, but the Lord sustained me and his work just as well as if I had been an Apostle. We baptized father Hubbard and his wife, after which we went on our way re28 KB (5,264 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...lates from which was taken the Book of Mormon until this day, in which the Christian, the moral and the political world, or any other portion of the inhabitants ...so prejudice the mind of a High Councillor, a High Priest, a Bishop, or an Apostle, that he will lean to the individual instead of the truth. I despise a man17 KB (3,180 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...revealed religion of the Savior; also the Jewish as the forerunner of the Christian religion. This people are an object of derision and astonishment to our Christian neighbors, and to the whole world an object of reflection and serious thoug27 KB (4,883 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE DISCORD AND WARS AMONG CHRISTIAN NATIONS CONTRASTED WITH THE UNITY OF THE SAINTS |T=Journal of Discourses 29: THE DISCORD AND WARS AMONG CHRISTIAN NATIONS CONTRASTED WITH THE UNITY OF THE SAINTS36 KB (6,661 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...y wrongs, but they do not design to do wrong. They can truly say, with the Apostle Paul, "When I would do good evil is present with me." Paul had been a very ...oman Catholic priest pushed under the ice while he professed belief in the Christian religion. God dictates all these matters, and will work out his designs in29 KB (5,428 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...nd Unchangeable—Charges of Exclusiveness, Etc., Against the Saints—The Christian World Deny Revelation and Repudiate Bible—Doctrine—The Gospel Restored17 KB (2,749 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God." And the Apostle Paul, who makes this declaration, advised his brethren to have the same min ...yet there are not thee Lords, but one Lord. For while we are compelled by Christian verity to acknowledge each person by himself to be both God and Lord, so we38 KB (7,206 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...words, my brethren and sisters, embody to us to-day, though written by the Apostle Peter, 1800 years ago, the Gospel of life and salvation. They are exceeding ...lders when they travel and declare the same message, "Why has God left the Christian world for so long a time without these blessings and these powers and these34 KB (6,304 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...opposite condition of affairs to that which exists among the sects in the Christian world, and being contrary they imagine ought to be sigmatized {{page break| ...urch of Jesus Christ, or of any church, or of no church whatever—be they Christian, Mahommedan, heathen or Jew—by following the teachings which God has give23 KB (4,287 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE JOHN HENRY SMITH, Delivered at the Annual Conference, held in the Tabernacl ...ainst the "Mormons" is worked up right from our own homes, and largely by, Christian ministers. Letters are written to the ministers of the country; the ministe28 KB (5,224 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |S=REMARKS BY APOSTLE MOSES THATCHER, Delivered in Logan Tabernacle, Sunday, April 13, 1885. REPO ...here are thousands and hundreds of thousands of people in the midst of the Christian world who, if left to their own agency, would be just, generous, and good m29 KB (5,062 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Provo, Sunday Morning, May 31st, ...ering of this first chapter of Genesis is sustained by the writings of the Apostle Paul, when he says: "For of Him"—speaking of the Only Begotten—"and thr49 KB (9,074 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...TLES—THEIR RECEPTION AND FATE—THE GREAT APOSTASY—PRESERVATION OF THE APOSTLE JOHN—HIS REVELATION—RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL—THE EARTH TO BE BAPTIZE ...TLES—THEIR RECEPTION AND FATE—THE GREAT APOSTASY—PRESERVATION OF THE APOSTLE JOHN—HIS REVELATION—RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL—THE EARTH TO BE BAPTIZE31 KB (5,846 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |S=REMARKS BY APOSTLE J. H. SMITH, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Sunday, July 27th ...in the roles they so nobly played, not one of them nor any other orthodox Christian has been able to evolve a perfect system of Church government. Their produc16 KB (2,933 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...uoted and many more like unto them—what do they say? Oh, they tell their Christian friends that they lament the darkness, the moral blindness, the intellectua ...nd His apostles. I have already referred to the general recognition by the Christian world of the doctrines of Christ and His apostles as being the foundation o28 KB (5,110 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE MOSES THATCHER, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Logan, Sunday, Aug. 28, 1885. ...rehension of the testimony that rewards, in time and eternity, enabled the Apostle Peter to meet undismayed the death of crucifixion. It caused the disciples41 KB (7,479 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...PHYSICAL AND MORAL COURAGE—THE JUDGE OF THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT NOT A CHRISTIAN—A CONCUBINE WAS A WIFE AND IT SHOULD NOT BE A TERM OF REPROACH—THE CHAR ...PHYSICAL AND MORAL COURAGE—THE JUDGE OF THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT NOT A CHRISTIAN—A CONCUBINE WAS A WIFE AND IT SHOULD NOT BE A TERM OF REPROACH—THE CHAR29 KB (5,487 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE F. D. RICHARDS, Delivered at the General Conference, at Logan, held in Octo There is a portion of the writings of the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians, that seems so appropriate to our condition, that I p34 KB (6,446 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |S=DISCOURSE BY APOSTLE LORENZO SNOW, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City.(From Deseret New ...ther religious system could have achieved such things, nor dared any other Christian denomination venture to send out its missionaries "without purse or scrip,"25 KB (4,239 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...will be passed on every man. This is in accordance with the vision of the Apostle John the Revelator. ...eat mission to the earth, but merely to the agonies which he suffered. The Christian world I know say he alluded to the great work of redemption. This however,16 KB (2,891 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...f all the various Christian sects. You will find, go where you will in the Christian world and listen to any of the great preachers of the day, that this is the ...rought forth. This is the first resurrection. "Blessed and holy," says the Apostle John in his vision, "are they that hath part in the first resurrection; on36 KB (6,840 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...stream of time to our own period. All the rest of the denominations called Christian have sprung from that body directly or indirectly, and their organization w ...book called the Book of Mormon; and because we believe in that book, our "Christian" friends call us "Mormons." We might just as well call them Peters, because30 KB (5,683 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...ay? Yes. There is a great difference between the Book of Mormon and modern Christian religion; but there is no difference between that book and ancient Christia ...o man can discern the things of God, but by the Spirit of God; so says the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians. It is impossible for the natural man to know the t36 KB (6,709 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024